9.1.2. Software Requirements

9.1.3. Hardware Requirements

You need an audio interface to use Rosegarden. If you will record audio with Rosegarden, you must have at least one microphone connected to your audio interface. You do not need a microphone to record audio signals from other JACK-aware programs like FluidSynth and SuperCollider.

9.1.4. Other Requirements

You need a MIDI synthesizer to use Rosegarden as a MIDI sequencer. You can use hardware-based and software-based synthesizers with Rosegarden. We recommend using the software-based FluidSynth MIDI synthesizer. See Chapter 10, FluidSynth for information about FluidSynth.

9.1.5. Installation

Use PackageKit or KPackageKit to install the rosegarden4 packge. PackageKit automatically installs other required software.